Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion Paperback / softback
by Paulin Batairwa Kubuya
Part of the Asian Christianity in the Diaspora series
Paperback / softback
Description
Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations.
These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning.
For practitioners, the achievement of existential meaning requires the inclusion, implication, and mediation of the ancestors.
When gestures in ancestor rites are analyzed from this perspective it is possible to appreciate their essence as constitutive of “ancestor religion.” This book uses an inquisitive method that investigates the discrepancies between foreign and local explanations, and proposes another hermeneutic framework for ancestor related praxes.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 3 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 232 p. 3 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:06/06/2019
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- ISBN:9783319889542
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 3 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 232 p. 3 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:06/06/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319889542
